A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 by Alice L. Conklin

A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930

Alice L. Conklin

384 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persi...

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